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Enhancing Participation In the Community by Improving Wheelchair Skills: Phase 2 (EPIC WheelS)

This study is enrolling participants by invitation only.
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University of Manitoba
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT01644292
First received: July 13, 2012
Last updated: July 16, 2012
Last verified: July 2012
History of Changes

July 13, 2012
July 16, 2012
August 2012
October 2012   (final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Change from Baseline in Wheelchair Skills Test (WST) 4.1 Capacity Score [ Time Frame: Baseline and follow-up (1 month) ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
The WST is a structured assessment with 32 discrete mobility skills required to perform social roles in the community, each scored dichotomously as pass/fail. The WST produces a total Skill Capacity score (0-100%) reflecting the number of skills safely passed.
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Enhancing Participation In the Community by Improving Wheelchair Skills: Phase 2
Enhancing Participation In the Community by Improving Wheelchair Skills (EPIC WheelS): Phase 2

The purpose of this project is to conduct a pilot study of the EPIC WheelS wheelchair skills home training program for older adults in preparation for a third phase feasibility study.

Many older adults rely on a manual wheelchair for community mobility but are not provided with skills for independent and effective use. Suboptimal or disuse of the wheelchair results in substantial social costs such as reduced engagement in meaningful activity, social isolation, and higher caregiver burden. This represents a poor use of financial resources, including the cost of wheelchair acquisition and demands for attendant care. Access to skills training is constrained by the cost and limited availability of skilled therapists, the demands of patient and clinician travel, and lack of programs designed specifically for the needs of older adults. Enhancing Participation In the Community by improving Wheelchair Skills (EPIC WheelS) is an individualized home-training program that optimizes learning for older adults while limiting the demands on expert clinician trainers. It is delivered using a portable computer tablet that allows interactive learning, customized updating, and communication with an expert trainer. A monitored, home program that is effective and efficient for older adults has potential application for other target groups as well, particularly those with limited access to rehabilitation services in rural and remote locations.
Interventional
Phase 1
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
Older Adult Manual Wheelchair Users
Other: EPIC WheelS
EPIC WheelS is a user-centred program for wheelchair skills training that combines two structured 1-hour sessions with an expert trainer and four weeks of self-directed practice and training in the natural (home) environment.
Experimental: Training Intervention
Intervention: Other: EPIC WheelS
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Enrolling by invitation
5
December 2012
October 2012   (final data collection date for primary outcome measure)

Inclusion Criteria:

  • at least 55 years old
  • live in the community within metropolitan Winnipeg
  • self-propel a MWC at least 1 hour per day
  • use their MWC for mobility outside of the home

Exclusion Criteria:

  • cannot communicate and complete study questionnaires in English
  • anticipate a health condition that contraindicates wheelchair training
Both
55 Years and older
No
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Canada
 
NCT01644292
H2012:069
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University of Manitoba
University of Manitoba
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Principal Investigator: Ed M Giesbrecht, PhD (Cand.) University of Manitoba
Principal Investigator: William C Miller, PhD University of British Columbia
Principal Investigator: Janice Eng, PhD University of British Columbia
University of Manitoba
July 2012

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